Cooling device



March 2 1926. 1,575,482

F. HILLE COOLING DEVICE Filed Feb. 25, 1925 INVENTOR EHille ATTORNEY Iii Patented M, 192%.

.arsnrr FRANK HILLE, or, LONG istanzo our, NEW YORK.

COOLING- DEVICE.

Application filed February 25, 1925; Serial No. 11,402.

To all 107mm it may concern:

Be it lznown that T, FRANK T-IrLLn, a citizen of'the United States, residing at Long Island City, in the county of Queens and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cooling Devices,

speci iiciition.

vide an apparatus adapted to force cooled air into an enclosed compar ment and filter the same before being used Another object is to provide an air-filterins; system in which means are incorporated for cooling the air before the same arrives at the point of distribution.

The above and other objects will become apparent in the description below, in" which characters of reference refer to l ke-named parts in the drawing. V

Referring briefly to the drawing, Figure 1 a front elevational view of the air filter inn and cooling system. I

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional eleratidnal view of the air filtering funnel;

Figure is a longitudinal sectional elevatioiial view of the sponge saturater used with the device.

Figure f is a side Figure 3.

Referring numeral mounted on clevational view of in detail to the drawing, the indicates a blower which is a shaft 11. This shaft procutwardly from a window opening 12 of a building and is adapted to support the motor propelled blower 10. By rotation of the blades 13, is impelled thru the open my; 1st and expelled thru the spout 15 into a conveyor tube 16. courses downwardly and at its lower end enters into a sealed box like structure 17. Within the chamber of this box-like structure, a tubular coil 18 is housed. One end of the tubular coil is connected tot-he conveyor tube 16 and its opposite end connects to a pipe 19 which communicates with a tapering filtering funnel 520. At the smaller end of the filtering funnel, a sleeve 21,1s formed over which the endsof the pipe 19 is slipped to make a leak-proof joint. The chamber of the b0): 17 is filled with a cooling medium 22 such as ice water, which is drained from the ice compartment 23 of an ordinary type of refrigerator 24. To this manner the drain water from the refrig erators may be salvagedtand put to use for of which the following is a The main object of this invention is to pro-- This conveyor tube cooling thefair which passes thru thecoiled tube 18. The waterfrom the ice chamber 23 of the refrigerator is passed into the box 17 by a pipe 25 which connects the floor of the chamber 23 of'the refrigerator withthe side wall of the cooling box 17. [in additional. shelf 26 is mounted at some convenient position on a Wall and is adapted to support a stand 27 on which the filtering;- funnel 20 is secured. The filtering funnel, as previously stated, consists of a hollow tapering member which is provided with hel'cal threads at its larger "end to which a cap 27 is engaged; An internal rim 28 encircles the inner periphery of the filtering funnel, and upon-the face of this rim, a filtering medium 29, such as cotton or similar material is seated; The filtering medium is retained in position on the rim 28 by an internal flange 30 which is an integral part of the capQY, and between the flange 30 and the rim 28 of the filter inc; funnel, the cotton or filtering medium 29 is held. In front of the large mouth of the filtering funnel, a hollow frame 31 which serves as a pedestal. for an air saturater device, is mounted. This pedestal extends vertically upward and has an arm 32 extending at right angles from the top of the pedestal and an vaddidzional arm wnich is aligned with the upper arm 32, extends also at right angles from the pedestal. chamberBt is formed in the upper half ofthe pedestal 31 and extends halfway the distance between the upper arm 32 and the lower arm 33. This chamber as 85 which extends entirely thru the length of the upper arm 32. The outer end of the arn'r 32 is sealed one set screw 36 which may be removed when it is desired to clean the channel 35. Thisupper arm 32 has a hollow tube 3? depending vertically therefrom, and at the lower end of this tube, an annular dished-out hollow head 38 is mounted. The hollow portion of the head 38 communicates with the opening in the tube 37, and this chamber in the head is provided with openings 39 thru which communication may be had from the chamber Sf and channel 35. Axially on the inverted face of the head 38, a prong 40 extends downwardly and is adapted to position a sponge 4-1 in place in front of the mouth of the filtering funnel. this sponge is seatedupona dished-out plat The lower end of" which isiuounted on a stud %3, and also is provided with a positioning prong a l on which the sponge 4:1 is impinged. The chamber 3% of the pedestal 31 has a piston head to slidably vertically therein. This head is connect-ed to a more able rod 46 which is housed in a slot 47 and has a finger ring L8 as part of its lower end;

The air cooling and filtering system, i.- lnstrated in thedrawing, is used; in the followingmanner. The b'lt'iwer 'lO ls energized so that the "tan plates 13 will rotate and draw air intothe confines of the blower thru the impeller o ilenilngi rrmtpt the spout 15 to circulate thrn' the tube 16, coil-18, a n d pipe 15), to be tinaily'dis: pated tl-iru the mouth of the filteringtunn'el QO. Theair'in pass ingthrn the coiledtube 18 is cooled,an'd as this cooled efir circulates thr'n the cotton n'ionntdi'in the jlilteri ji'g funn l, said air is cleaned of San suspended 'ii'npnrities which may 'be carried. into the chamber thru the impeller opening let. The air which isemitted from theinouth ofthe filtering tunnel is in'a dry condition," and before it circulates in the compartment, it subjected to circu lationthrna saturated sponge ll whichis mounted directly in front 'ot the inouth ot the filtering tunnel. This sponge is retained. on a platform ll by an upper dished out liquid circulating head 28. Both the head and plattornrare provided with 4 0 vwhich "secure the-sponge in position. The sponge is continually made n o or wet o sliding the rodlti upwardly so that the piston is inoves'up ardl y in the chamber Ell andl'orccs' water with which itlias been previously filled, into the ,hollow por tion of; the head and then thru the openings 3'9, where it'con'iinunicates' with and :--:atnratcsthe sponge thru capillary attraction. When the-clminbenS and hollow portion of the arm 32 has been emptied of water or iquid therein,- these portion and 235 may again be filled by reinorine; said screw and holding the arm 32 under a source of liquid. supply.

I claim r 1. In an air cooling;- and filtering system, a blower,acoolin flcoil connected to said blower, a filtering tunnel connected to said coil, annir satnrater comprising a sponge adapted to be moistened, a pedesta support ing said sponge, said destal hat-fling a hollow portion therein adapted to be filled with liquid, an upper and a lower annextend'ing sidewise from the pedestal, the upper arm being hollow a plattori'n on the lower arni supporting said sponge'a piston slidable in said pedestal and'adapted to lift the liquid therein, a rod on said: piston movable in the recess in the pedestal, a finger ringon said rod, and-a hollow head depended "from. the upper arm adapted to receive the upper end ofthe sponge.

' In an air cooling and filtering a blower, a cooling coilconnected blower, a fi tering funnel connected to said coil an air saturater comprising a sponge adapted to be moistened, a pedestal sup: porting said sponge, saidpedestalhaving a hollow portion'thereiiradapted to be filled witli liqu id, an upper and a lower arinj extending sidewise from the pedestal, the upper arni being hollow, a platform on the lower arn'r supporting said sponge, a piston slidable in said pedestal and adapted to lift the liquid therein, a rod on said pistoninorable in the recess in the pedestal, a linger ring on said rod; a dished-oat hollow head depending;- from the uppei arin and having: openings on its bottom face, the botteni tace lying in. contaet'withtheupper portion of the spon e,and prongs on the platform of the low r arni and-head o'l the upper arm, tor positioning the spongein place between both members, i

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